Johann Neem, professor of history at Western Washingon University and a recent guest to Mid-Missouri with the Kinder Institute for Constutitional Democracy, visits with Darren Hellwege about his book Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) and the history of public education in America.

Much has come from the November 2015 protests here at MU. One upcoming series of discussions on race will occur in a new course that begins in January. A pair of MU faculty who developed the course 'Race and the American Story' were guests on this week's Thinking Out Loud.